Kabul: At least 40 people were killed and over 30 injured here on Thursday in a suicide attack inside an Islamic religious school situated in a building which also houses the offices of an Afghan news agency.
The explosion took place around 10.30 a.m. in...

Kabul, Dec 25: At least seven people were killed on Monday in a suicide bomb attack near Afghanistan's intelligence agency here, officials said.
The attacker, who was on foot, triggered the bomb around 8 a.m., near an office of the National Directorate of Security in...

Kandahar: A series of Taliban attacks over six hours on more than a dozen Afghan checkpoints killed 22 police and wounded 15 in the southern province of Kandahar, police said on Tuesday.
Authorities said government forces killed 45 insurgents and left 35 wounded and none...

Kabul: At least 15 insurgents were killed after Taliban attacked a police training centre in Afghanistan's Wardak province on Tuesday.
"One terrorist detonated a car bomb at the front gate of Dasht-e-Toap Police Training Centre at evening, enabling the gunmen to make their way to...

Afghanistan's telecoms regulator wrote to internet service providers this week ordering them to block the messaging services WhatsApp and Telegram but it was not immediately clear whether they had complied.
Use of social media and mobile instant messaging services has exploded in Afghanistan over recent...

KABUL: The smell of death permeated the Imam Zaman mosque in Kabul on Saturday hours after dozens of Shiite worshippers were slaughtered by a suicide bomber during evening prayers.
Broken glass and dust covered the red carpet, soaked in the blood of the men, women...

Kabul: At least 30 people were killed and 45 others wounded after two suicide blasts ripped through mosques in Kabul and Ghor province, respectively, on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
In the Kabul attack, 20 worshippers were killed and 40 others wounded after a suicide...

KANDAHAR: At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban-claimed suicide attack on a military base in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said, the third assault on a security installation this week.
Just two soldiers are known to have survived unscathed after the attack...

Kabul, Oct 19: The Afghan police arrested five officers in connection with the recent Taliban attack on a police centre in Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan, an official told EFE on Wednesday.
In the attack Tuesday, 53 people were killed and 158 others were injured.
"Four...

Kabul: At least one civilian was killed and three others were wounded in an explosion near a mosque in the Afghan capital on Friday, witnesses said.
The blast happened at 1.45 p.m. in Qala-e-Fathullah neighbourhood when the Friday prayers were underway in a nearby mosque,...